"The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123" (mattp123)
02/02/2015 at 12:00 • Filed to: None
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"The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123" (mattp123)
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My 1972 Cutlass Supreme needed new shocks and I wanted to maintain the original look. So...
Step one: Know what they look like. I found this image of some period correct ones on ebay. Pleasurizer... Giggity.
Step two: Buy shocks. I went with some KYB Gas-A-Just shocks. Less than $140 for all four.
Step three: Make a sticker in ye olde Photoshoppe using the image you found earlier as a guide. I don't have a laminator, so I will print the stickers and "laminate" them with packing tape. Genius, I know. Expect me to win a Nobel prize for MacGyvering.
Step four: Once new shocks arrive, peel off that sticker!
Step five: Mask as necessary, hang, and paint the shocks with the closest color paint you just happen to have left over from that model of a 1968 Dart, with a HEMI out of a different model kit, you built years ago when you were in your awkward MOPAR phase.
Step six: After you realize your 10+ year old can of gold paint squirts it out rather than puts out a mist, run to your nearest suburban hardware store because you can't sell spray paint in your city.
Step seven: Now that you have a functioning can of paint, spray away. Remember kids, if the quality of the finish isn't your top priority, then the world is your spray booth.
Step eight: And once you can't print your stickers because your printer always seems to be out of ink, go to a print shop and get it done there. It's ok, though. I can have them print on sticker paper so I don't have to buy spray adhesive, and they can legit laminate too. There goes that Nobel prize…
Step nine: Cut them out and stick them on.
Step ten: Mount the shocks and sleep easy knowing a part of your car that nobody will ever really see kinda looks the way it did when new.
camaroboy68ss
> The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
02/02/2015 at 12:07 |
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at least that method works on your older GM, my 68 had spiral shocks from the factory and man they ain't cheap to replace. Last time I looked I could get fully adjustables for the same price as concours correct spirals
Tohru
> The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
02/02/2015 at 12:07 |
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great jorb Homestar
HammerheadFistpunch
> The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
02/02/2015 at 12:09 |
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Pleasurizer? A Monroe brand?
E92M3
> The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
02/02/2015 at 12:29 |
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What did they charge for printing the stickers?
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The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
> E92M3
02/02/2015 at 12:31 |
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I forget but it was pretty cheap. Whatever the cost of a sheet of sticker paper and lamination costs. I don't remember it being more than $5.
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E92M3
> The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
02/02/2015 at 12:35 |
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Wow that's not bad. I figured it would $20 or more at a Fast Signs type place.
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The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
> E92M3
02/02/2015 at 12:44 |
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You're probably right. I got it done at an Office Max/Depot for cheap cause nobody will really see it unless they look.
newguyherelethree
> The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
02/02/2015 at 12:48 |
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But... but... why??
The paint's gonna chip off in a few hundred miles and no one will notice—nor car—about the updated struts.
505Turbeaux
> The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
02/02/2015 at 13:08 |
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Now my pink Invicta wagon is going to have to have Pleasurizers. Excellent post. Love it
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The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
> newguyherelethree
02/02/2015 at 13:08 |
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You apparently cared enough to criticize the effort. And why? Because this is how the rest of the car looks. So why not? I only drive it a few hundred miles a year and it never sees rain, snow, or construction. They'll hold up fine. And if they do chip, like you said, "no one will notice."
Chuck 2(O=[][]=O)2
> The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
02/02/2015 at 20:57 |
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Everyone has/had a awkward Mopar phase. It still lives with you though. In the back of your mind you will always want to rip around town in a big block Mopar with a pistol grip.
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The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
> Chuck 2(O=[][]=O)2
02/02/2015 at 21:55 |
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I might enjoy it, but I'm over that phase. There's only a handful of obscure ones I would take.